Promoting Equality and Diversity in Teaching Practice Reflection

This assignment provides a detailed reflection on a student teacher's efforts to promote equity and diversity in their teaching practice, with a specific focus on creating a safe and inclusive learning environment. The student discusses their commitment to treating all students equally, regardless of race, religion, or ethnicity, and outlines strategies such as establishing classroom rules, introducing discussions, and using diverse teaching materials. The assignment also includes an identification of actions and strategies used to achieve the goal of promoting equality and diversity, a ten-point classroom rule document, and a report on how the student would enhance the school's program of initiatives in promoting equality and diversity. Furthermore, it identifies professionals and agencies to collaborate with, practical steps a school can take, key actions taken in teaching practice, reflections on missed opportunities, and the impact the student believes they made on the school's equality and diversity agenda.

Equity and Diversity
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Task 2
A) Write a reflection on how your promotion of equality and diversity helped create a
safe and enabling learning environment for your learners during your teaching
practice.
I always love to create an environment which promotes equality and diversity to create a safe
environment for my learners during my teaching practice. I am committed to treating that
every student is equal beyond any race, religion and ethnicity. I promote to establish equality
which does not fall under any specific or universal rule; rather it is a sensitive issue. This
helps to recognise all biases and absorbs stereotypes. Learners should develop respect for
everyone irrespective of background. They are conscious about choosing their language
which is used to demean and to lower self-respect. My suggestions to the students are always
to make them know best practice to avoid sensitive terminology. This helps to grow sense in
every learner in respect of their teaching which makes them more comfortable with the
environment of learning. They are now more confident, more informed about their past
cultural histories. I introduce a general discussion class for a short period of time to convey
that every learner has the ability to achieve success beyond cultural background. The learners
are more aware about feelings and hesitation of some group that we have a stereotype idea
predisposed in our mind (Fine-Davis & Faas, 2014). I prefer to ensure security to one and all
learners of any group as I know that this protective mentality actually sends wrong signal in
their mind. It is the general tendency of the learners to stop expressing in case he or she faces
any criticism with biased view. The role of free environment adds value to the students’
performance when they feel equality in treatment. Learners can reflect a discipline in library,
cafeteria and this broader view would spread in society as well. These learners now know that
this equality is important to live in a diverse society. To establish equality and diversity in
classroom, all the teaching materials are now moderated by the experts of the subjects
through introduction of visual and auditory elements. Resources are now chosen to eliminate
inequality to foster diversity. Course contents and assignments are reviewed considering
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multiple factors promoting applicability and acceptability to the students as per current
scenario. Behaviour of most learners has changed mind set and now they have knowledge of
background and their skills. They do not show preference or ignorance now. Being a trainee
teacher I should promote the concept of equality in diversity amongst the students so that
each learner should possess proper way of thinking about others and they should check and
make correction by themselves to ensure inclusion of every learner in the classroom (Petty,
2014).
B) Identify with brief explanations, at least five actions or strategies you used to achieve
the goal of promoting Equality and Diversity.
1. I teach every learner in such manner that they should grow the feeling of equality that
in all aspect beyond any race, ethnicity and gender by my presentation.
2. I teach them to consider equality in diversity without biased views by posing
examples from history.
3. I tell my learners to abstain from using offensive languages with penalising measure.
4. I have moulded the course content to promote equality in diversity.
5. I used to give assignment that is specific to lower inequality in a diverse society.
Task 3
A) In your teaching practice, agree with your students and write up a ten-point classroom
rule (management) document (display) that communicates the need to promote
Equality and value Diversity in your classroom. – L.O 3.1
Rule for classroom
1. Never use any discriminatory language
2. Support every learner
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3. Never point out mentioning one’s race
4. Never bully anyone
5. Never abuse anyone
6. Read history and cultural diversity
7. Never show arrogance
8. Accept others as they are
9. Never treat with biased views
10. Never be stereotype (Virginia, 2016).
B) You have appointed the Equality and Diversity coordinator in your school. Write a
brief report detailing how;
i) You will enhance your school’s programme of initiatives in promoting Equality
and Diversity in your new role. – L.O 4.2
As a measure of ensuring equality in diversity I have appointed the Equality and Diversity
coordinator in my school. His job is to ensure that different effective measures are to be taken
to make the students understand the role of equality in broader sense in perspective of
society. To facilitate this process, I would like to introduce some guidelines which can help to
coordinator to establish equality in diversity. I would also like to review of the course content
with necessary amendments to promote the concept of equality in diversity. Moreover, I
would love to make the students of different ethnicity aware about cultural background that
will help to create promoting equality.
ii) Identify at least three professionals or agencies and show how you will work with
them to promote your school’s Equality and Diversity agenda. L.O3.1, 3.2, 3.3
and 4.1. (Task B – 400 Words).
I have appointed the Equality and Diversity coordinator in my school. There are three
agencies to promote Equality and Diversity agenda in my school. I need to work with them to
establish equality and diversity among learners. I would distribute agencies in different field.
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The agencies are Equality and Human Rights Commission, Hastings and Rother Rainbow
Alliance and Skills Funding Agency, UK (Amber-initiatives, 2016).
Equality and Human Rights Commission will ensure equality for the disabled personalities of
the society. In my class, the disabled students are to be facilitated by the agency through their
different level of involvement to ensure escalation of skills of the disabled. They will assist
the equality and diversity coordinator by their different technical knowledge through which
the class of people with disability can perform their work and feel the sense of equality in
their daily life. Moreover this agency is engaged in diversified activities like primary
education resources which can enhance the scope introducing equality in diversity amongst
the students. (Commission, 2017)
HRAA will ensure equality within the diverse type of people through the objective of the
organization to promote equality of treatment to the core sector of target audience like
lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual by eliminating the discrimination on the basis of
gender or sexual orientation by raising the feeling of awareness through spreading education
amongst them to ensure promotion of activities to make the people of diverse habits or
orientation so far sexual concern to make them part of the society. Through the activities of
HRAA the provision of raising voice within the voluntary and statutory sector as per the
social needs of the communities and working for development of social outlets through
training and information services for the LGBT communities to ensure proper respect to their
citizenship. These efforts will ensure the feeling equality amongst the LGBT community with
continuous impact. (Alliance, 2017)
Skill Funding Agency is working on the minority group consisting of Black, Asian and
Minority ethnic group or BAME. Their objective is to raise the proportion of apprentices of
that community to 20% by 2020 in UK. This agency can facilitate the feeling of equality
amongst the said communities through provision of proper training and thus can ensure the
diversified community to feel their sense of equality in the society. (Agency, 2017)
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TASK 4
Outline practical steps that a school can take to promote and ensure a culture of Equality and
Diversity in its wider community and society. – L.O 4.1
A school can change the stagnant mentality by changing attitude of learners and teaching
stuffs by introduction of different practical steps to ensure feeling of equality which may
include promotion of apprenticeship to the students of different ethnicity, generalised
recruitment policy to ensure equality or convening community day events of different
communities to ensure enhancement of equality feeling amongst the stakeholders of the
school. (Det, 2016).
TASK 5
A) Identify and explain at least five key things you did in your teaching practice that
promoted Equality and valued Diversity in your school (within your classroom and or
within the wider school community). – L.O 4.1, 4.2, 5.1 – 200 Words
1. I never miss any situation that is vital for promoting equality in diversity. Every
situation is an opportunity to make sensitivity spreading across learners.
2. I always pointed out comments and behaviour while teaching in classroom.
Sometimes I applied this theory even in compound or even in stuff room.
3. I always love to speak about stereotype assumptions, biased views, and awareness of
cross cultural society.
4. I like to speak about students’ background to let everyone know about all.
5. I teach about inclusiveness in my classroom with examples of different societies.
6. I write some rules that should be followed and implemented in all classes. There is a
guide book which I introduced in my school to make awareness.
7. I always offer a range of different fruitful strategies to all of my colleagues.
8. I use to include quotes from different literature written for minority groups.
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9. I use to manage any unpleasant hot moments in my classroom. I always try to turn
serious issues in discussions into a case study in positive attitude. My vibes help
learners a lot in promoting equality in diversity.
B) Reflecting on your practice, identify and explain at least two things you could have
done (better) or missed the opportunity to do spontaneously that would have further
enhanced your school’s culture of promoting Equality and valuing Diversity. – L.O
5.2 – 200 Words
I always support my learners as well as my colleagues to help in promoting equality in my
school. I always would like to take challenges and care for instant assistance to help out any
abuse or argument. It would make me very active with subsequent faith and trust of the
stakeholders on my decisions and subsequent judgement. But people do mistake sometimes
and I am not an exception. In August, last year, there was a student of vitiligo with printed
skin. He was from south Asia. All other learners used to call him ‘Spotted Dear’. This is
derogatory and with abusing tendency definitely. That young chap used to come and
complain about this. I was not so serious initially and suggested him not to react for
everything. But one day, one of Local learner came with bruises in his back and told that
vitiligo guy beat him with an iron rod after bullying. I was shocked and felt ashamed not
being so serious in that case.
Another incident was also much unexpected and makes me repentant. There was a
transgender learner in my class few years ago. Most people have heteronormative approach
and a biased thinking about transgender. Before I would make my learners aware, that learner
was abused in front of me. I think I could have handled these cases in a better way.
A) Reflecting on your practice, write a brief report on the impact you believe you made
on your school’s Equality and Diversity agenda. – L.O 5.3 – 200 – 300 Words
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I believe I establish all possible ways to ensure Equality and Diversity agenda in my school.
The school now rarely faces any inequality case. There are very few hot arguments in school
campuses regarding biased views. Teachers also are very sensitive and responsive. They are
not stereotype about class, ethnicity, religion or race. Everyone is interested in inclusiveness
of every learner without hesitation. If there are some issues, they contact me, discuss and
have an instant solution. The most changing thing is study materials which supports equality
and diversity. I think people do mistake when people do not have clear idea about ethnicity,
race and class or groups. In my opinion, I have seen that knowledge can make a huge change
in mentality. I always give emphasis to create awareness about history and geography of our
people through which people can accept everyone without biasness. I would never criticize
my learners or anyone for not educated. It is our duty to create such atmosphere that makes
people sensitive, and my school turned into an institution where least cases need my vigilance
to ensure equality. My school has got award from UK Educational Department for least cases
of inequality. It has come in every Newspaper for this applauding behaviour and I am proud
that I could have created such environment in my classroom as well as in my school.
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